If you look at my résumé, I've more often than not played a very solid, decent human being.

There's no man, alive or dead, who's going to fault you for living.

I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning.

More and more of our finest actors are finding room for themselves in the world of television - but I truly believe it's because some of the best stories are being told there.

I don't know that I feel comfortable playing a villain; as a matter of fact I probably don't feel comfortable, which is why I like it so much. It's just an opportunity to try something different.

Certainly I think being an absentee farther helps in adding a layer of conflict.

My kind of success has come a little bit later in life. I'm not 20 any more and these people I've been working with have been successful and good at what they do for a long time.

Working exterior nights in Vancouver, when it's raining and snowing, is a little daunting, when you haven't slept.

As a matter of fact - it'll probably ruin my movie career - but I think better storytellers are in television.

I'm not a fan of horror. I don't think a proper horror movie has been done since The Shining.

I can't say enough about Ireland. I can't. I'd move there.

I married beneath me. All women do.

The greatest sacred sayings

Grown tall, like a ruddy weed, on his food.

I will not leave Burma until the cross is planted here forever.

I believe in striving for excellence. I sweat the big and small stuff! I do not apologize for this.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too.

Nobody wants to follow somebody who doesn't know where he's going.

Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.

. . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.